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Haunting host, updated

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If you're reading this note, this is a beta-release of the second version which I'm putting here so I can link some friends I'm about to playtest it against to it. More modifications may follow after that.  I've now playtested my original Haunting Host list through a couple of games, against Empire and Cathay. Conclusions are as follows: At core it's pretty balanced, but predictably it's swingy. In particular, some of the swing is about what opponent you're facing, as some armies have much better options for generating magical attacks than others. See Appendix A, 'armies by ghost-killing capacity' and B, 'making it fair' Banshees and screams are ofc an excellent damage dealer, but aren't game-winning in the absence of big regenerating troop blocks even if you hop a load of them out of haunt in somebody's backline I wanted some special vampiric power equivalents, which have been added as 'spectral manifestations'. Just gives a ...
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The Host with the Ghosts: A Warhammer: The Old World Army of Infamy AND rules for Lord Virion the Grim, Mortarch of Plague

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 Played a game of ToW the other day for the first time in probably nine months or so. I brought a VC list almost entirely comprised of Ethereal creatures and then crumbled turn 2 when my general got shot by a magic-ized cannon. Yay :) ( relevant tumblr post ) But I couldn't get over one critical thing: I can't field an entire army of ethereal creatures. This is an injustice. I must correct it. Thanks to R. for help brainstorming the initial idea for this article after surgically murdering me in what still has to be one of the more interesting games I've ever played. Thanks also to the Warhammer Fantasy redditors who pointed out issues (notably u/Fool_of_a_Took). It'll remain a living work up to the first playtests, at which point subsequent revisions will likely appear in a new post. Warhammer Armies: Vampire Counts 8th edition. GW never credited their artists well and has only gotten worse at this; if you know who did any specific piece of art, lmk and I'll credit ...
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